You have your vehicles registered so why not the guns?I unerstand you guys dont want to give them away tats fair, but ths is about register the weapons, why not? So many imbecil criminals would have a hard time to find a gun, would be more expensive also. I think a registration makes sence.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 30307190

Why dont i register my toaster, toilet, and every fork in the kitchen?

Quoting: Casper28

14,000 Japanese died in bathtubs last year, more than the 10,000 who died of gun violence in the USA

I say ban bathtubs and the deadly habit of bathing!

Probe into Japanese bathtub fatalities after 14,000 die in one year

Japan's health ministry is to launch an investigation into bath-time fatalities after it was estimated that 14,000 people die every year in the tub - three times as many as those who died in car accidents.

Lot of people out there in power who will not give up their hand gun. They go to work armed and leave their family armed at home because of the work they do.

Bad fight for the senate to pick, drudge is just stating the obvious.

I think the Senate is about to relearn a tough lesson they never should have forgot in the first place.

Quoting: Chrit

Oh I know, I'm just surprised he stated it so plainly. Just amazing and startling to see this stuff happening so fast I guess.

Quoting: Laura Bow

Fast? Been in the works for years. TPTB just waited until after elections to pull off the coup de gras (Sandy Hook) and set the wheels in motion. I'm sure the bill has been waiting for months if not years.

Lot of people out there in power who will not give up their hand gun. They go to work armed and leave their family armed at home because of the work they do.

Bad fight for the senate to pick, drudge is just stating the obvious.

I think the Senate is about to relearn a tough lesson they never should have forgot in the first place.

Quoting: Chrit

Oh I know, I'm just surprised he stated it so plainly. Just amazing and startling to see this stuff happening so fast I guess.

Quoting: Laura Bow

Fast? Been in the works for years. TPTB just waited until after elections to pull off the coup de gras (Sandy Hook) and set the wheels in motion. I'm sure the bill has been waiting for months if not years.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 20892214

No, no...I don't mean fast regarding that...but I mean in times from the Newtown shooting that triggered it. Like you said, this has been laying in wait for a long while, but now they're able to pull the trigger on it.

I told you gun nuts the day or reckoning was coming, and it's coming! You have a little while longer to stock up and play out your wacky, paranoid fantasies of militias defending liberty against the US military, hordes of criminals and UN troops descending on your compound, etc., before these dangerous weapons are properly regulated, so HAVE FUN!!

Part of my reason in posting this is wondering if they are going to now start cracking down the internet because of statements similar to this? By Drudge posting what he did, could he/his site be considered terrorism per DHS?

(U//FOUO) Open source reporting of wartime ammunition shortages has likely spurred rightwing extremists—as well as law-abiding Americans—to make bulk purchases of ammunition. These shortages have increased the cost of ammunition, further exacerbating rightwing extremist paranoia and leading to further stockpiling activity. Both rightwing extremists and law-abiding citizens share a belief that rising crime rates attributed to a slumping economy make the purchase of legitimate firearms a wise move at this time.

(U//FOUO) Weapons rights and gun-control legislation are likely to be hotly contested subjects of political debate in light of the 2008 Supreme Court’s decision in District of Columbia v. Heller in which the Court reaffirmed an individual’s right to keep and bear arms under the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, but left open to debate the precise contours of that right. Because debates over constitutional rights are intense, and parties on all sides have deeply held, sincere, but vastly divergent beliefs, violent extremists may attempt to co-opt the debate and use the controversy as a radicalization tool.

Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment7 April 2009(U) Prepared by the Extremism and Radicalization Branch, Homeland Environment Threat Analysis Division. Coordinated with the FBI.

I told you gun nuts the day or reckoning was coming, and it's coming! You have a little while longer to stock up and play out your wacky, paranoid fantasies of militias defending liberty against the US military, hordes of criminals and UN troops descending on your compound, etc., before these dangerous weapons are properly regulated, so HAVE FUN!!

I told you gun nuts the day or reckoning was coming, and it's coming! You have a little while longer to stock up and play out your wacky, paranoid fantasies of militias defending liberty against the US military, hordes of criminals and UN troops descending on your compound, etc., before these dangerous weapons are properly regulated, so HAVE FUN!!

Quoting: Enough already 27192275

news flashyou cannot legislate morality.The evil men do to each other in the name of good.Never ever learn. Defective.

I doubt this bill will pass as its currently written. Even if it got through the Senate, it's very unlikely it would pass in the House. I'm sure the Dems already know this. So what's their agenda with this bill?

Are they trying to deepen the political divide in the US? If so, to what end? Do they want a civil war?

Or are they just trying to distract us from some other issue(s)?

Or could they simply be putting on a show for their supporters to make it look like their doing something to solve the gun problem while, in the end, very little will change at all?

Maybe they've included some of the more extreme parts so that at the end of the bargaining process they'll still get what they really want.

Surely they know that some of these proposals have no chance of being approved. So what's their endgame?